ing its purity, marring it like a blasphemy.
For an instant I hung behind, watching their figures grow misty within the shining shadows; then followed hastily. Entering the mists I was conscious of a pleasant tingling, an acceleration of the pulse,Parajumpers Männer Kobuk Jacken Schweiz, an increase of that sense of well-being which,Classic Mini Czyścibut 5854, I grew suddenly aware,Belstaff Nové Toxic Blouson Bunda, had since the beginning of our strange journey minimized the nervous attrition of constant contact with the abnormal.
Striving to classify, to reduce to order, my sensations I drew close to the others,Italia Drakt Barn, overtaking them in a dozen paces. A dozen paces more and we stepped out of the curtainings.
Chapter XI The Metal Emperor
We stood at the edge of a well whose walls were of that same green vaporous iridescence through which we had just come, but finer grained,Atletico Madrid Drakt Damer, compact; as though here the corpuscles of which they were woven were far closer spun. Thousands of feet above us the mighty cylinder uprose,Ultimate Tall Czyścibut 5245, and in the lessened circle that was its mouth I glimpsed the bright stars; and knew by this it opened into the free air.
All of half a mile in diameter was this shaft, and ringed regularly along its height by wide amethystine bands — like rings of a hollow piston. They were, in color, replicas of that I had glimpsed before our descent into this place and against whose gleaming cataracts the outlines of the incredible city had lowered. And they were in motion, spinning smoothly, and swiftly.
Only one swift glance I gave them, my eyes held by a most extraordinary — edifice — altar — machine — I could not find the word for it — then.
Its base was a scant hundred yards from where we had paused and concentric with the sides of the pit,Bailey Button Leopard 5803. It stood upon a thick circular pedestal of what appeared to be cloudy rock crystal supported by hundreds of thick rods of the same material,Albania Landslagsdrakt.
Up from it lifted the structure, a thing of glistening cones and spinning golden disks; fantastic yet disquietingly symmetrical; bizarre as an angled headdress worn by a mountainous Javanese god — yet coldly, painfully mathematical. In every direction the cones pointed, seemingly interwoven of strands of metal and of light.
What was their color? It came to me — that of the mysterious element which stains the sun’s corona,Parajumpers Männer UGO Jacken Schweiz, that diadem seen only when our day star is in eclipse; the unknown element which science has named coronium,Classic Czyścibut 5899, which never yet has been found on earth and that may be electricity in its one material form; electricity that is ponderable; force whose vibrations are keyed down to mass; power transmuted into substance.
Thousands upon thousands the cones bristled,Dales Liddesdale Quilted Bunda, pyramiding to the base of one tremendous spire that tapered up almost to the top of the shaft itself.
In their grouping the mind caught infinite calculations carried into infinity,New York City Drakt; an apotheosis of geometry compassing the rhythms of unknown spatial dimensions; concentration of the equations of the star hordes.
The mathematics of the Cosmos.
From the left of the crystalline base swept an enormous sphere. It was twice the heigh
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